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The #1 Sunday Times Bestseller
Longlisted for the Booker Prize 2021
A Barack Obama Summer Reading Pick
‘A delicate, haunting story’The Washington Post
‘This is a novel for fans of Never Let Me Go . . . tender, touching and true.’The Times
‘The Sun always has ways to reach us.’
From her place in the store, Klara, an Artificial Friend with outstanding observational qualities, watches carefully the behaviour of those who come in to browse, and of those who pass in the street outside. She remains hopeful a customer will soon choose her, but when the possibility emerges that her circumstances may change for ever, Klara is warned not to invest too much in the promises of humans.
In Klara and The Sun, Kazuo Ishiguro looks at our rapidly changing world through the eyes of an unforgettable narrator to explore a fundamental question: what does it mean to love?
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Nobel laureate Kazuo Ishiguro speaks to us about the surprising origins of his novel, Klara and the Sun. From Waterstones.
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Kazuo Ishiguro was born in Nagasaki, Japan, in 1954 and moved to Britain at the age of five. His works of fiction have earned him many honours around the world, including the Nobel Prize in Literature and the Booker Prize. His books have been translated into over fifty languages and The Remains of the Day and Never Let Me Go…
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